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SEPTEMBER 14, 1998
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New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. DOC JAVASCRIPT: JavaScript 1.3 Overview, Part I
2. E-COMMERCE WATCH: Mobilizing E-Commerce Development Teams
For Success
3. NEW LINKS: HTML Style Guides, Site Announcement
Resources, Commerce Server Providers
4. THE LINUX PHENOMENON: Linux, Open software, and the Noosphere
5. NEW SITE: WebUtilities.com
6. OTHER VOICES:
* Adobe ImageStyler Review - WebDeveloper.com
7. NET NEWS:
* New York Times Hacked
* SoftQuad announces HotMetal 5
* DisNet - or It's a Wired World After All
* Mecklermedia acquires Scriptsearch.com and Innergy.com
Spread the word! Feel free to send a copy of this newsletter to
your friends and colleagues, and while you're at it, snap a link to
WebReference.com.
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1. DOC JAVASCRIPT: JavaScript 1.3 Overview, Part I
The Doc dissects JavaScript 1.3, first released with Netscape
Communicator 4.06. The new release goes a long way towards meeting
the ECMA (European Computer Manufacturing Association) Standard's
requirements, and includes Unicode support and a revamped Date
object. By Dr. Yehuda Shiran.
http://www.webreference.com/js/column25/
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2. E-COMMERCE WATCH: Mobilizing E-Commerce Development Teams For
Success
Building or enhancing a Merchant Commerce System? The first step
is team creation. Mark Merkow tells you how to focus on e-commerce
success through the lens of a well functioning development team.
http://www.webreference.com/ecommerce/mm/column9/
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3. NEW LINKS: HTML Style Guides, Site Announcement Resources,
Commerce Server Providers
>HTML Style Guides
Is your HTML source code a little unreadable by the outside world?
Get with the program and check out a style guide off our fresh list
of links.
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/htmlstyle.html
>Site Announcement Resources
If you got the Web site, we have the resources. Check out our
list of site submission engines and bring yourself one step
closer to fame on the Internet.
http://www.webreference.com/promotion/announce.html
>Commerce Server Providers
You deserve a break. Make someone else do the work for you. Farm
out your e-commerce worries to one of the competent folks on our
list of providers.
http://www.webreference.com/ecommerce/csp.html
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4. THE LINUX PHENOMENON: Linux, Open software, and the Noosphere
If you want a break from reading the Starr report (and I'll spare
you the stories about the Net handling the traffic, etc.) try
reading the writings of Eric Raymond, a thoughtful, long-time
hacker (in the good sense of the word) who wrote "The Cathedral
and the Bazaar." Netscape said this paper on the Linux/Open
Software movement was an inspiration for releasing the source for
Netscape 5.
Eric has released a sequel, "Homesteading the Noosphere," where he
explores the property and ownership customs of the open-source
culture that reveal an underlying "gift culture" where hackers compete
amicably for peer repute. Eric makes explicit what was once implicit,
and explores the social taboos hackers staunchly adhere to.
He writes that ownership and control of open-source software has
an underlying theory of property rights homologous to the Lockean
theory of land tenure. One of the three ways to acquire land is by
"homesteading," mixing one's labor with the unowned land, fencing
it, and defending one's title. Hackers naturally "homestead" their
of open-source projects (or all of its ideas) in a "gift culture"
where participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and
creativity away.
But what is the "yield" of giving away your code? You can't coerce
effectively over a network connection, so seeking power is right
out. Likewise, the open-source culture doesn't have anything much
resembling money or an internal scarcity economy, so hackers cannot
be pursuing anything very closely analogous to material wealth. What's
left is your reputation among your peers, and he uses this to explain
why the hacker taboos are the way they are.
If you want to understand why Linux is working so well (and if
endorsement by major software companies is any indication, it's
doing very well indeed [IBM, Netscape, and Oracle are coming out with
Linux versions of their software]) or if you want to start your
own open source project, this is a good place to start.
Definitions:
Linux: the choice of a GNU generation
Noosphere: the territory of ideas, the space of all possible thoughts
http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/writings/homesteading/
http://www.opensource.org
http://www.mozilla.org
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5. OTHER VOICES: Adobe ImageStyler Review
>Graphics Software Review: Adobe ImageStyler
With today's release of Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 beta, Adobe hits new
heights in features and user-friendliness, not to mention time-saving
features. Read our review and find out just why Adobe's again the
one to beat. From WebDeveloper.com.
http://webdeveloper.com/categories/design/design_reviews_imagestyler.html
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6. NEW SITE: WebUtilities.com
Check out Ulead's new Web utilities site with its interactive on-
line graphics optimizer based on their SmartSaver product. You can
interactively set various optimization parameters (interlace, smooth,
dither, palette, number of colors) and view and save your results,
until you've got what you want.
http://www.webutilities.com
http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/1998/09/1101-web.html
InternetNews.com, Sep. 11, 1998
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7. NET NEWS: New York Times Hacked, SoftQuad announces HotMetal 5,
DisNet, Mecklermedia acquires Scriptsearch.com and
Innergy.com
>New York Times Site Hacked
Hackers broke into the nytimes.com site Sunday morning and posted
messages and nude pictures of women to draw attention to Kevin
Mitnick. The Times took their page down for nine hours while they
repaired the problem. The hackers also broken into the new movie
site for TakeDown, which is based on the book by the same name,
and the arrest of Mitnick.
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.internetnews.com/Reuters/1998/09/1404-hit.html
Reuters.com, Sep. 14, 1998
>SoftQuad announces HotMetal 5
SoftQuad, Inc. announced HoTMetaL PRO 5.0 today, the latest version
of their WYSIWYG HTML development tool. New in this version of HotMetal
is the Resource Manager, the next generation of the FX Chooser, which
first appeared in HoTMetaL PRO 4.0. The Resource Manager allows users
to extend HotMetal with their own scripts, and drag and drop them into
their pages. SoftQuad has partnered with companies to provide third
party scripts and we're proud to announce that they've included
two scripts from WebReference.com: News Harvester, and the Hierarchical
Menus, from Peter Belesis.
http://www.softquad.com
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/1998/09/1403-softquad.html
>DisNet - or It's a Wired World After All
Disney's CEO Michael Eisner, sees the synergy the Net can provide,
and is the driving force behind their Internet efforts. In fact,
in this week's Time magazine (Sep. 14, 1998) he says he's "obsessed"
with the Internet.
Like every large media company, Disney wants share. Disney's been
acquiring strategic partners and properties towards that goal.
Infoseek, SportsZone.com, shop.com, family.com, disney.com, add
them up, and they're number three. But Disney has something you
need to keep them coming back for more, compelling content. In
January, Disney acquired go.com, and it's rumored that they'll
pool all their sites around this one huge portal, to aggregate
their traffic (advertisers like large numbers of eyeballs,
Mecklermedia does this with their Internet.com sites [i.e.
webreference.internet.com]).
Disney, like CNET and others, buys prime, one-word domain names.
These easily recognized names (like movies.com, go.com, foods.com,
dig.com...) act as a kind of virtual real estate for the '90s.
Buying a one-word domain name in the topic of your focus (in Disney's
case entertainment) won't guarantee visitors initially, but by having
*the* domain name, they can claim that theirs is the definitive site,
even if it isn't.
http://www.disney.com
http://www.go.com
>Two More Sites Added to Internet.com Network
Mecklermedia announced today the acquisition of two developer sites,
Scriptsearch and Intranet Design Magazine.
http://www.innergy.com
http://www.scriptsearch.com
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/1998/09/1401-acquisition.html
InternetNews.com, Sep. 14, 1998
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King
Managing Editor, WebReference.com
update@webreference.com
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